Renewable Energy Needs Huge Mineral Supply (via Climate Central) By Tim Radford, Climate News Network LONDON – Humankind could be about to exchange one kind of energy crisis for another. The switch from the finite store of fossil fuels to renewable…

We have been given a sobering glimpse into the speed of our changing climate and the vulnerabilities of our world. It turns out we must focus greater attention to the tropics, where so much of humanity and wildlife live, and to our oceans.

Chinese scientists have created a revolutionary way to connect to the internet using LED-based lightbulbs, Xinhua reports. Coupled with special microprocessors embedded in the bulbs, four computers were capable of connecting to the internet at very high speeds: 150 megabits…

Source: The Hill Author: Ben Geman The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to require greenhouse gas permits for big stationary pollution sources such as power plants, factories and refineries. The…

Up to Five Billion Face ‘Entirely New Climate’ by 2050 (via Climate Central) By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma The mean annual climate of the average location on Earth will slip past the most extreme conditions experienced during the past 150…

Not everyone wants the United States to improve relations with Iran. Some prefer war instead. Not because Iran is a threat to the American people, or the Israelis, but because a friendly Iran would no longer furnish the convenient enemy the hawks in the United States and Israel need.

(via The Jersey Tomato Press) The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to 3 Americans, all researchers. This prize was just announced by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. This year’s prize was awarded jointly to these…